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Lurking way down in every human being’s heart is a knowledge that God exists. Anyone who has tasted battle, who has belched up that bile of fear as the shells explode and lead whizzes past their head, knows. Anyone who has stared Death in its grotesque face, who has come a whisper away from their own demise through car wrecks, muggings, beatings, fires, drownings–these know there is a God.

How do I know? Because without exception, these all cry aloud, “Oh, Lord! If you would just help me out of this jam and let me live, I’ll serve you.”

It’s built into us. This knowledge that we are to serve and love and depend on our Creator is in our genes. When faced with our own annililation, we immediately go to God as a child to their own father without thinking or rationalizing about it. We don’t say, “Well, let me see. I wish I could believe in God at this present dangerous juncture in my life.” No. We cry out to Him from the very core of our being, our heart in utter desperation, pleading to the only One that we know deep down can save us. And then we offer a last ditch deal, saying we’ll serve Him if we make it out of this mess.

And He so many times “for His name’s sake”* delivers us from the specter of death, knowing that most humans will not keep their end of the bargain immediately. For when Death is escaped for the moment, we humans go back into our sweet intoxicating delusion that we are immortal and we are okay, and, hey, that was no big deal, had it covered all the time.

Humankind is its own greatest witness that there is a God that they should be serving. No, it is a fact: There are no atheists in a foxhole. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

*{God’s name in the original Hebrew means “The Self-existent One is the Savior.” Because of what His very name means, He will save us–“for His name’s sake. Transliterated into English, Christ’s name in Hebrew is “YAHSHUA.” This was the Hebrew name of our Savior, which was the same name of the Patriarch Joshua, which is His name anglicized. The name “Jesus” and “Joshua” are used interchangeably in the New Testament.}
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